Katie Miller, Pence spokeswoman, tests positive for coronavirus  —  Katie Miller, a spokesperson for Vice President Mike Pence, has tested positive for coronavirus, according to two people with knowledge of Miller's diagnosis.  —  Miller's positive diagnosis for Covid-19 puts the potential threat …

Team Trump Wants Flynn Back for 2020, Sees Him as Its ‘Nelson Mandela’  —  Can a disgraced former national security adviser become a campaign MAGA hero?  We may soon find out.  —  With the Justice Department announcing Thursday that it would drop the case against Michael Flynn …

Political fantasy battles economic reality after tens of millions of jobs lost  —  The U.S. economy is sitting in its deepest hole since the Great Depression, with more than 33 million Americans losing their jobs in just seven weeks and an unemployment rate now at 14.7 percent …

I worked for Jared Kushner.  Of course he says his covid-19 failure is a success.  —  President Trump's son-in-law always casts himself as the genius cleaning up someone else's problems.  —  Jared Kushner's coronavirus response team, we learned this week, is fumbling because it's largely staffed with inexperienced volunteers.

Glynn County commissioner says DA blocked arrests after fatal shooting  —  Glynn County Commissioner Peter Murphy on Friday said that he had determined that District Attorney Jackie Johnson's office refused to allow Glynn police to make arrests immediately after the Feb. 23 shooting death of Ahmaud Abery.

'We're going to fill it': Republicans ready for any Supreme Court vacancy  —  Senate Republicans are quietly beginning to contemplate the possibility of an election-year confirmation battle for the Supreme Court.  —  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's hospitalization this week and the looming end …

Federal agency says removal of vaccine chief may have been retaliation  —  Ousted vaccine director files whistleblower complaint  —  (CNN)The investigative office reviewing the whistleblower complaint of former federal vaccine chief Dr. Richard Bright has determined there is reason to believe …

Coronavirus Live News and Updates  —  The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week rejected a plea from California's Education Department to allow parents or legal guardians of children who are eligible for free school meals to pick up meals for themselves as well as hunger spreads in the nation's largest state.

The Downside of Being a Fox News Journalist?  Getting Asked About Sean Hannity  —  News anchors Chris Wallace and Bret Baier have faced frequent questions about the network's powerful opinion hosts and their commentary.  —  Chris Wallace was getting frustrated.  —  “I'm here.

Gretchen Whitmer's Chilling Call With the White House  —  In Ep. 6 of The New Abnormal, co-hosts Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast talk with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer about a scary call with the White House and the ad that drove Trump batty.  —  Between being the object of Trump's vitriol and dealing …

‘Plandemic’ Is Dangerous, Viral Nonsense  —  Judy Mikovits has an urgent story to tell.  In essence, it goes like this: Top government scientists are responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, and a lot else besides.  She knows because she was once one of them, before they tried to destroy …

Coronavirus pandemic may lead to 75,000 “deaths of despair” from suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, study says  —  COVID-19 has directly claimed tens of thousands of U.S. lives, but conditions stemming from the novel coronavirus — rampant unemployment, isolation and an uncertain future …

Obama Defense Official Evelyn Farkas Admitted She Lied On MSNBC About Having Evidence Of Collusion  —  Former Obama administration defense official Evelyn Farkas testified under oath that she lied during an MSNBC interview when she claimed to have evidence of alleged collusion …

WATCH: Morning Joe Airs Damning Montage of Trump's Rhetoric as Coronavirus Death Toll Rose  —  Morning Joe aired a damning montage of President Donald Trump's public statements over the roughly three months that the deadly Covid-19 contagion has taken the lives of nearly 75,000 American lives.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo merch is here and trending all over Etsy  —  Cuomo couture?  —  via  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo has built quite the fan base throughout the duration of the coronavirus crisis.  —  As New York continues to be one of the top states with reported COVID-19 cases …

Here's how college students can return to campus in the fall  —  Lanhee J. Chen is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and director of domestic policy studies in the public policy program at Stanford University.  Vanila M. Singh is a clinical associate professor of anesthesiology …

Anti-Mask Snowflakes Of The Right  —  Look, I understand people are mad about social distancing and wearing masks, but a lot of people on the Right are losing their minds.  Here's something from a column by Dan Fagan in my local paper, the Baton Rouge Advocate: … I'd say you've boiled your brain, Cap.

Tesla reopening Fremont plant despite Alameda shelter-in-place order  —  Emails tell 30% of factory's workforce to return to work  —  Tesla is planning to reopen its Fremont plant Friday in apparent defiance of Alameda County's COVID-19 shelter-in-place order.

SC restaurants given go-ahead to reopen their dining rooms at half capacity on Monday  —  COVID-19: What you need to know now  —  COLUMBIA — Restaurants across South Carolina on Monday can reopen their dining rooms, which almost two months ago were closed by Gov. Henry McMaster in hopes of containing the coronavirus.

Former Aide Spoke of Harassment in Biden's Office in 1990s, Court Document Shows  —  Declaration made in 1996 doesn't name then-senator as harasser of Tara Reade or specify what she says took place  —  The former Senate aide who has accused Joe Biden of sexual assault told her former husband …

White House pandemic supply project swathed in secrecy and exaggerations  —  On May 1, as White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, an illustration of an airplane flying to the moon appeared on the monitors beside her.

The coronavirus economy is exposing how easy it is to fall from the middle class into poverty  —  'It's too cold to sleep in my car': Some are slipping through the giant holes in the U.S. safety net  —  Louise Lara apologized for crying as she told her story.

Team Trump Considers Drive-In Theater Campaign Rallies After Coronavirus Destroyed His Preferred Option  —  The president wants to get back on the trail.  His aides are trying to figure out how.  —  President Donald Trump is thirsting to hold campaign rallies again.

Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming.  Here's What They're Worried About Next.  —  You might feel blindsided by the coronavirus, but warnings about a looming pandemic have been there for decades.  Government briefings, science journals and even popular fiction projected the spread of a novel virus …

The awful reason wages appeared to soar in the middle of a pandemic  —  This morning, the Labor Department reported that wage growth skyrocketed in April.  Average hourly earnings in the private sector were up 7.9 percent, compared with the same time last year.

Democratic senators propose $2,000 monthly payments to most Americans  —  A trio of Democratic senators are pitching a big idea: pay most American families thousands of dollars each month until the coronavirus's economic crisis subsides.  —  On Friday, Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) …

Prominent lawyer, Trump donor representing Biden accuser  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer who alleged Joe Biden sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, is being represented by a prominent lawyer and political donor to President Donald Trump's 2016 Republican campaign.